Georges Delerue - Music for Films

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An important composer of film music for well over 150 features, from the early 50s through to the 90s. Delerue won a scholarship to the prestigious Paris Conservatoire, where he was encouraged to develop his interest in music for the screen. In 1952 Delerue composed new scores for two early 20s silent films, Le Chapeau De Paille De’Italie and Les Deux Timides, and, in 1956, he served as musical director for a series of short films by Alain Resnais, and then for Raymond Rouleau’s The Witches Of Salem (1957). Two years later he co-composed the scores for Le Bel Age (with Alain Goraguer), and Hiroshima Mon Amour (with Giovanni Fusco). In 1960 Delerue made Shoot The Piano Player, the first of a celebrated series of films with Francois Truffaut, one of France’s premier ‘new wave’ directors. In 1961 Delerue began another important association with director Philippe De Broca, lasting some 16 films. In the early 60s Delerue’s career developed further with his involvement in British films. In 1963 he scored French Dressing, controversial director Ken Russell’s feature debut, and also Russell’s Women In Love (1969), with its famous nude wrestling sequence. By the early 70s, after completing one of his best scores for The Conformist, an Italian-French-West German production, Delerue broke into Hollywood, and subsequently lived in Los Angeles for several years. Even so, for the majority of the time he continued to work in France. His initial US scores included Frankenheimer’s The Horsemen; The Day Of The Dolphin; Fred Zinnemann’s Julia; and A Little Romance (1979), for which Delerue received an Academy Award. In 1985, he composed a new score for Alexander Volkov’s 1927 silent film Casanova. His last few scores, in the early 90s, included Black Robe; Curly Sue; Count A Lonely Cadence; Mister Johnson; American Friends; and the French production Dien Bien Phu (1992). Delerue died shortly after the latter film had been previewed at the Berlin Festival. The London Sessions volumes 1-3. Delerue was a Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France’s highest honours. Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Track List 1. L'Amour à la Chaîne - Suite (0:00) 2. Rapture - Suite (3:27) 3. Interlude - Must It Happen Once To Everyone (10:15) 4. Le Mépris - Thème De Camille (16:00) 5. Our Mother's House - Main Title (18:33) 6. Il Conformista - Suite (22:20) 7. The Horsemen - Just As You Are, I Love You (28:30) 8. The Day Of The Dolphin - The Chase (32:42) 9. The Day Of The Dolphin - Main Title (36:14) 10. Julia - Suite (38:34) 11. Va Voir Maman, Papa Travaille - Générique Fin (44:26) 12. Le Jeu du Solitaire - Thème Principal (47:31) 13. Femmes De Personne - Arnaud (50:38) 14. True Confessions - Carrick Fergus (52:49) 15. True Confessions - The Barracks (55:34) 16. The Escape Artist - Main Title (58:56) 17. Agnes Of God - Suite (1:02:25) 18. The Black Stallion Returns - Alec And The Black Stallion (1:10:37) 19. Platoon - Finale (1:13:52) 20. Biloxi Blues - Rhythm To End (1:19:51) 21. Her Alibi - Main Title (1:23:22) 22. Là-Haut, les Quatre Saisons - Générique (1:28:24) 23. Lancelot du Lac - Suite (1:31:43) 24. Tours du Monde, Tours du Ciel - Stellaire 3 (1:36:09) 25. Tours du Monde, Tours du Ciel - Stellaire 1 (1:38:26)